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TORONTO (OSV News) -- Father John Mullins wasn't at his normal posting at Toronto's Pearson International Airport when his phone delivered the breaking...
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(OSV News) -- The U.S. bishops' Feb. 18 lawsuit against the federal government for abrupt and sweeping changes to refugee resettlement funding, and the...
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(OSV News) -- As Ukraine marks the third anniversary of Russia's full-scale invasion, the Ukrainian Greek Catholic bishops are affirming Ukrainians' belief...
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(OSV News) -- The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced Feb. 19 it has started to send out guidance on "clear sex-based definitions" to...
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WASHINGTON (OSV News) -- In sharing the U.S. bishops' Lenten message this year, their pro-life chairman used it "to speak to all who carry the unbearable...
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(OSV News) -- The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops sued the Trump administration Feb. 18 over the suspension of funding of refugee resettlement assistance. In...
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NAPLES, Fla. (OSV News) -- Organ donor registry programs typically offered during state driver’s license renewals might seem like a straight-forward...
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(OSV News) -- Catholics across the world are embarking on pilgrimages to commemorate the Jubilee Year of Hope. Many will travel to Rome to visit the four...
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WASHINGTON (OSV News) -- The U.S. bishops' migration chair called recent comments by Vice President JD Vance about the church's work with migrants "a tremendous...
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(OSV News) -- As part of swift and sweeping changes to immigration policy, the Trump administration is aiming to end or severely curtail two forms of immigration...
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WASHINGTON (OSV News) -- More than two dozen Christian and Jewish groups filed a lawsuit Feb. 11 in federal court to challenge a Trump administration policy...
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WASHINGTON (OSV News) -- Pope Francis has appointed Msgr. Richard F. Reidy, vicar general and moderator of the curia of the Diocese of Worcester, Massachusetts,...
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(OSV News) -- Catholic Relief Services and Caritas agencies throughout the world are warning that the Trump administration's freezing of the U.S. Aid for...
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(OSV News) -- The leader of the nation's Catholic bishops has commended Pope Francis' move to extend to the universal Catholic Church the feast of a beloved...
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WASHINGTON (OSV News) -- The president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops Feb. 11 thanked Pope Francis for his support for the U.S. bishops' work...
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(OSV News) -- Cardinal Joseph W. Tobin of Newark, New Jersey announced he has engaged a law firm to investigate whether the current president of Seton...
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NAPLES, Fla. (OSV News) -- A large urban setting with ample family-friendly attractions will likely host the next National Eucharistic Congress in 2029,...
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(OSV News) -- In the past four years, the TV show "The Chosen" has taken the Catholic world by storm, as thousands eagerly await the debut of the fifth...
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WASHINGTON (OSV News) -- The 11th National Eucharistic Congress will be held in 2029, building "on the grace" received in Indianapolis at the 10th congress,...
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WASHINGTON (OSV News) -- The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops issued layoff notices to about a third of the staff in its Migration and Refugee Services...
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WASHINGTON (OSV News) -- The Trump administration Feb. 7 changed the government's position in a Supreme Court case concerning a Tennessee state law banning...
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WASHINGTON (OSV News) -- Amid ongoing uncertainty about the future of the U.S. Agency for International Development, the former head of Catholic Relief...
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(OSV News) -- Ahead of national and international celebrations of matrimony, Bishop Robert E. Barron said that marriage is "a source of hope for all generations." Bishop...
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(OSV News) -- Sunday Mass attendance in person at Catholic churches in the U.S. is back to pre-pandemic levels -- although just under one quarter of the...
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WASHINGTON (OSV News) -- President Donald Trump said in remarks to the National Prayer Breakfast Feb. 6 that he would create a task force, led by Attorney...
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(OSV News) -- President Donald Trump signed an executive order Feb. 5 barring biological males from competing in women's sports. "Under the Trump administration,...
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WASHINGTON (OSV News) -- Claims that the U.S. bishops' conference profits from its partnership with the government to assist refugee populations that qualify...
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(OSV News) -- Skiers at Mount Shasta Ski Park in Northern California have a new protector. No, it is not a revamped ski patrol or new lifts; rather, it...
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(OSV News) -- Budgets, it has been said, are moral documents. By examining what they include and exclude -- fund and don't fund -- the apparent priorities...
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(OSV News) -- Those who embrace consecrated life "bring the hope of the Gospel to the world in both visible and hidden ways," said Bishop Earl A. Boyea...
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(OSV News) -- The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has confirmed the national shrine status of Our Lady of Martyrs Shrine in Auriesville, New York. The...
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(OSV News) -- U.S. Catholic bishops -- joined by Pope Francis -- are calling for prayer after a deadly aviation crash in the nation's capital claimed dozens...
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WASHINGTON (OSV News) -- In a move welcomed by the US bishops' chair on family life, President Donald Trump Jan. 28 signed an executive order stating his...
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WASHINGTON (OSV News) -- President Donald Trump Jan. 28 signed an executive order stating his administration would seek to prohibit certain types of medical...
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WASHINGTON (OSV News) -- Within the first week of President Donald Trump's return to the White House, he used executive authority to block taxpayer funds...
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(OSV News) -- Proposed legislation looking to repeal clergy-penitent protections in at least two states is in a head-on collision with the church's primary...
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